LONDON | DLR, Underground, Tramlink

[tommygunn]

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"London is the mother of all the worlds metro systems"

[Englishman]

Cool picture

[nick_taylor]

Thats inbetween Barbican and Kings Cross I believe - the road is the top level, the Underground services the level below and the bottom level Thameslink.....I think!

[Englishman]

Sounds realistic enough.

[TVS]

You're making me feel homesicknow

[hkskyline]

Tube passengers increase by 3%
By ROGER BLITZ
18 May 2005
Financial Times

A record 976m passenger journeys were made on the London Underground in the 12 months to April, up 3 per cent on the previous year, LU said yesterday.

LU carried out 95.3 per cent of its scheduled services, its best performance for seven years. It claimed most of the improvement was the result of LU responsibilities, such as the number of train services it operates and reductions in delays.

Tim O'Toole, LU managing director, used the figures to renew pressure on Tubelines and Metronet, the infrastructure companies responsible for Tube maintenance.

"Too many passengers still suffer too many delays as a result of train, track or signal failures. We continue to demand improvements from Metronet and Tube Lines . . .," Mr O'Toole said. " . . . Itis essential they deliver the better maintenance, new trains, renewed stations and line upgrades promised to Tube passengers, on time and on budget."

Roger Blitz

[Tubeman]

Originally Posted by nick-taylor

Thats inbetween Barbican and Kings Cross I believe - the road is the top level, the Underground services the level below and the bottom level Thameslink.....I think!

Its just West of Farringdon where the Thameslink dives under the Met / H&C / Circle Lines. The two pairs of tracks used to cross each other on the level originally, when it was known as the "Ray Street Gridiron". The arrangement was eliminated by the flyunder to stop all the delays the level crossing inevitably caused. I think the road crossing above it all is Ray Street.

There is an even more interesting arrangement on the now goods-only GWR Brentford Branch near Southall, where from the lowest upwards it goes railway-canal-road, all crossing each other at the same point.

[eddyk]

Tube randomness

[hkskyline]

London Underground to offer mobile phone service in all tube stations by 2008
31 May 2005

LONDON (AP) - Passengers waiting to board trains in the world's oldest subway system should be able to use their mobile phones -- and maybe ever surf the Web -- at all stations by summer 2008, officials said Tuesday.

London Underground announced that 70 companies have expressed interest in providing mobile phone service and new technologies, such as digital radio and wireless Internet, in the city's 275 Tube stations. Service in the tunnels and on the trains may be introduced later.

"What we are expecting is that if you are currently able to use your mobile phone above ground, you will be able to use your phone below ground, on the concourse, platform and passageways," said Peter MacLellan, a London Underground spokesman.

The 70 companies now have three months to submit specific proposals. London Underground plans to do a trial run of mobile phone reception at a central London station in 2006 before awarding the contract in late 2007.

Because the companies will propose which services to offer and how to do it, London Underground would not give a cost estimate for the project, although one industry analyst said it would be in the range of one billion pounds (US$1.8 billion, euro1.5 billion).

London Underground plans to reinvest this money for Tube improvements, and the companies that win the contract will pay the cost of providing the services.

Many of the world's subway systems already offer some mobile phone reception underground, including Washington, Berlin and Hong Kong.

"Other networks that have mobile phone provision are much newer than the London Underground," MacLellan said. "The London Underground is the oldest in the world therefore presents greater environmental and physical challenges that others don't need to face."

More than half of London's Tube stations already get mobile phone reception because they are either above ground or close to the surface.

[JapanVisitor]

Really enjoyed the pictures of the tube as an ex-pat Londoner, as an Arsenal fan you must enjoy the station at Arsenal which has a great exterior.

[edubejar]

London Tube rocks!

[Rachmaninov]

On the other hand... :P Delays and everything happens frequently

[Tubeman]

Originally Posted by JapanVisitor

Really enjoyed the pictures of the tube as an ex-pat Londoner, as an Arsenal fan you must enjoy the station at Arsenal which has a great exterior.

Its really quite unusually located for a Tube station; its on a residential street some way away from the nearest main road... In fact its one of very few tube stations not served by any bus route. I love the way its just "plonked" in the middle of a terrace of houses.

[Tubeman]

Originally Posted by Rachmaninov

On the other hand... :P Delays and everything happens frequently

Its improving, and plus its much more complex and old than the Hong Kong system, for example, and so is inherantly more prone to delays.

[hkskyline]

Tube repair delays 'may cost £14m'
21 June 2005
Evening Standard

Delays in modernising the London Underground could cost Tube contractor Metronet £14 million, it has emerged.

Metronet has set aside the cash to cover the financial impact of the potential late delivery of station improvements, Metronet shareholder Atkins said in its own results today.

The Metronet consortium, responsible for maintaining and modernising nine London Underground lines, said it was on schedule to complete on time only 16 station refurbishments out of a total of 26 that it is contracted to finish by next March.

[londonindyboy]

canary wharf station

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[RafflesCity]

British Airways promotional ads in Singapore, taken last month

Gloucester Rd tube station is featured




pic by babystan03

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